This is a festival that celebrates film that breaks down barriers and stigmas regarding mental health and celebrates other mental health warrior filmmakers.

A Mental Health Warrior is a creative who has been touched by mental illness. But he or she does not let it get them down. They use their creativity and their filmmaking talent to crush those barriers.

This Festival is the brainchild of Max Blaska. He’s a writer and filmmaker but also a mental health warrior. He has fought anxiety, depression for most of his life. He is also on the autism spectrum.

He firmly believes in the power of film and the performing arts to break down stigma.

All proceeds will go to Camp Creatability and Rogers Behavioral Health Foundation.

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This festival is also a fundraiser for two great non-profits that help in the mental illness and autism community. All proceeds will be divided between them.

Camp Creatability is a great organization that helps children, teens, and young adults on the spectrum learn filmmaking and give them a voice through film.

Rogers Behavioral Health does great wonders with teens and young adults with severe anxiety disorders. Max is an alumni of their program.

The Angel Fund helps make it easier for families to get the life changing treatment regardless of income.

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Discover our unique films

Join us in breaking down mental health barriers through the power of cinema.

We are currently accepting films through Filmfreeway. Be one of the first films to screen at this one of a kind film festival.


Our headliner will be “Fang”, a new horror film from fellow Mental Health Warrior Richard Burgin.

Our incredible lineup

Our film line up

The schedule of films

12:30 pm greet sitting and ordering food

1:00 pm – 2:24 PM

Artist/autist (3 minutes)

Graduation Day (22 minutes)

Camp Creatability films

1. Cruelty Cooked (5 minutes)

2. The Autistic Realm (6 minutes)

3 Canary (5 minutes )

Color Of Silence (30 minutes)

Scroll Food (14 minutes)

Q&A. And Intermission 2:24-3:00

Block 2

3:00 pm - 4:23pm

Through the Modern Looking Glass (25 minutes)

Rose Of Sharon (33 minutes)

Last Rung On The Ladder (25 minutes)

Q&A and intermission 4:23-5:00

Block 3 5:00 pm - 6:22

Voices with Impact block (27 Minutes)

Fortune Cookie (4 minutes)

Still We Thrive (6 minutes)

Are you Hungry (6 minutes)

Esther and Sai (6 minutes)

Out Beyond (5 minutes)

Super Human Anxiety (8 minutes)

The Feast (11 minutes)

Saudade (12 minutes)

In Your Head (11 minutes)

Mimi Goes To Rehab (15 minutes)

Q&A and Intermission 6:22-7:00

Block 4

7:00 pm - 8:43 pm

Pain (3 minutes)

The Other Me (4 minutes)

Onychophagia (3 minutes)

Fang (96 minutes)

7:00 pm - 8:43 pm